Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.